About the Authors

Kush N. Patel

Affiliation The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Qin Liu

Affiliation The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sonya Meeker

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bradley J. Undem

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Xinzhong Dong

xdong2@jhmi.edu

Affiliations The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Center for Sensory Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KNP QL BJU XD. Performed the experiments: KNP QL SM. Analyzed the data: KNP QL SM BJU XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KNP QL SM BJU XD. Wrote the paper: KNP XD.